Sling TV lets Windows 10 PC owners cut the cable cord with new app

Sling TV, the internet-based television provider, has launched its official Windows 10 app for PCs and tablets. Sling TV provides a number of cable TV networks for both live and on-demand viewing for as low as $20 a month.

Sling TV allows people to watch programming from networks like ESPN, CNN, Cartoon Network, and AMC, among many others. There's a seven-day free trial for folks who want to put the service through its paces. Here's what Windows 10 PC owners can expect when they download the new Sling TV app:

Live Tiles – Love "Game of Thrones" or "The Walking Dead"? You can easily see content updates from your selected "Favorites" and the "Continue Watching" ribbon when you pin Sling TV to your start menu.

I haven't need to add to the base. This closed a couple of gaps for me with ESPN +WatchESPN for live sports to go along with my HD antenna for local networks. I also like having AMC for things like The Walking Dead, which no streaming service seems to offer. I also have Netflix. I opted out of Hulu for now, but I have Amazon Prime. All that to say that there are use scenarios where SlingTV makes a lot of sense to a cord cutter.

I just cancelled my free trial of Sling literally an hour before this article was published. Combining the price of unbundled home internet with the price of the packages I need to get the channels I want from Sling, I'm not going to be saving any money. So sticking it out with the cable company it is. :(

The UI is far from adaptive right now, the favorites and my channels continue off the the right. If that is fixed, and it does need fixed even for PC, then this will work fine on mobile as the video window already scales.

I'm at work so i can't really test this out, but it seems like it's MUCH better than the xbox one version and maybe even the old x86 application. Xbox one suffers from quality issues, this was crisp from the start.

It worked okay, except it didn't like being full screen on my surface, I'd see the mouse pointer flash when it should have went away. Other than that it was much better than xb1. I've considering cancelling it many times, but it's the only way to watch certain programs for me.

Too bad the service is horribly laggy and constantly drops the stream or makes it look as if the entire screen has been pixelated. I can stream other services without issue. I don't think they have the resources needed to handle the demand. I tried the 7 day trial and canceled after day 3. I've talked with numerous people that have tried SlingTV and none of them were able to successfully make it work. All canceled quickly. One friend even had a 70mb internet connection....

Completely agree. I was watching Sling on a Roku in my room the other night and decided to move to my living room to keep watching what I was watching on a bigger screen hooked to my Xbox One. While the Roku app just works beautifully the Xbox One is SOOOO bad. It's truly beyond words how awful it is. I hope the Windows 10 one is good and that it goes on to the Xbox One. It wasn't just the performance... The content itself is a lot sharper in the Roku.

And this does not seem the case with only Sling. For example the ESPN app on the Xbox One is so crappy and slow.

I wonder if this is a fault within the apps themselves or the Xbox One or maybe a combination of both. It's truly remarkable that the Xbox One being far more powerful than the Roku cannot handle these apps. (I think I read that for these apps they don't have access to all of the Xbox One resources but still... It's so awful).

All of this for a console which is supposed to be strong in the media department leaves me feeling somewhat irritated.

I tolerated SlingTV on the Box One for 6+ months. The constant 10 second loops, buffering and failure to load the channels makes it useless. I held out hope that they would fix it. Eventually, I just had to cancel.

I used SlingTV on Nvidia Shield for almost a year and it sucked, even though I have a 300Mbps plan. Constant buffering and drops. All I like was the price and channel selection but I hated to switch for local channels. I have changed to PSVue (running on a PS4), $40 here in Cali, w/ local channels, more concurrent stream, more news and sports channels, DVR, etc, and the service is way, way better than my exprience with Sling, and I think totally worth it.

IF only they could bring PS4Vue app to Windows 10, but I doubt it will happen. I just think, in my experience with both, it is a better service.

it's not just the Xbox app. Their site doesn't offer a better experience either. I ended up cancelling due to their overall lack of quility streams. I used it on the Xbox and realized how bad it was, then I switched to using it PC (direct site) and really didnt notice much of an improvement.